complainte
French
Noun
complainte f (plural complaintes)
Further reading
- “complainte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
- complente
- compleinte
- compleynte (Anglo-Norman)
Noun
complainte oblique singular, f (oblique plural complaintes, nominative singular complainte, nominative plural complaintes)
- complaint; lament
- Ci encoumence la complainte de Monseigneur Joffroi de Sergines - title of a poem by Rutebeuf
Related terms
Descendants
- English: complaint
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (complainte)